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by feral 14y ago
>Keeping everything and all variables on the server is impossible, mainly due to lag the game would become unplayable, and due to having so many variables to calculate there is always something you have to trust the client with (positio
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by feral 14y ago
Its possible. More generally, its also possible the human graders were doing a bad job; the ML system can only learn 'essay quality' to the extent that the training data reflects it. However, the kaggle supplied 'straw-man' benchmark, which
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by feral 14y ago
Myself and a colleague entered this competition. We came 9th. We were doing this for fun, and aren't experts in the domain, but I think our score was within 'diminishing returns' of the better teams. There are a couple of things to realize
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by feral 14y ago
The work we now consider 'important' is the work that has, according to our best guess, the highest likelihood of solving important problems in future. Our best guess may be wrong, as the future is hard to predict. But the future is not so
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by feral 14y ago
This is a guess: Perhaps its because he's the new CEO, and Apple has just issued a large dividend for the first time in a long time - it looks better if the new CEO isn't a major beneficiary of the policy shift. This shows everyone that he'
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by feral 14y ago
It seems unlikely to me that scribd are actually looking for a solution to this problem, or an isomorphic one. Have you any basis for thinking that? There are many standard approaches to the general class of two player board games (they are
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by feral 14y ago
I'm not sure if Feynman would endorse the scientific framing that is being applied, in that article, to the haphazard process by which society evolves. Science experiments should try and be, at least to some extent, repeatable. When the art
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by feral 14y ago
>As long as P(big success | funds preggo) < P(big success | funds slightly less awesome non-preggo), it is the VC's responsibility to choose the non-pregnant person. He would be throwing away his client's money otherwise. With that
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by feral 14y ago
I agree with the spirit of your argument. In fact, I almost came here to write a parallel comment: I'm really not sure that reversing the list 'a' with 'a[::-1]' is better than 'reversed(a)', which usually effectively does the same thing, b
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by feral 14y ago
I'm not sure. Your body changes all the time. Your mind is always running on different hardware than it was just a few moments before. The changes are just small at each step. >I'm sorry, but I still do not think that the patient wil
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by feral 15y ago
There are huge network effects at play with youtube. People discover new content (related videos) as they browse the site. With Dropbox, it seems, to me, like there are much fewer network effects at play. I don't know what percentage of ac
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by feral 15y ago
Its interesting that the article starts with a riff on the opening line of Pride and Prejudice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." It seems like there could
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by feral 15y ago
Something has always bothered me about the type of memory technique mentioned in the article. There's a sense, in which it is a 'junk' association, to associate 'zero' with Ozzy Ozbourne eating a bat's head. Do I really want to have many su
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by feral 15y ago
>And second, even if it were broken, Google has never fixed anything before. >Google never said “What you’re doing is broken. Use our thing instead.” They always said “Did you know you we can do that too, for free?” I don't agree.
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by feral 15y ago
We mention this patch, in an updated version of our work (currently under review, and not yet online). This patch goes a substantial way to mitigating one of the big issues we discuss; the issue is that, in the protocol, separate balances,
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by feral 15y ago
What I mean is that while the credit card system can be used anonymously, it is not easy to do so. By default, most casual users of credit cards should assume they are certainly not anonymous. And most people with credit cards know this. N
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by feral 15y ago
Right, exactly. With careful precautions, Bitcoin can, I'm sure, be used anonymously. (Mine the coins yourself, connect to the network using TOR, never use your computer for anything else, be paranoid, never pay for a transaction that coul
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by feral 15y ago
There are two authors. We made a decision not to reveal names (or forum names, etc), because we are doing academic research here. Our motivation is to let people know they aren't inherently anonymous when they use Bitcoin, rather than to pu
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by feral 15y ago
Whats this doing on the front page, again? I'm one of the authors, if another discussion does start here, I'll be happy to try and answer questions.
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by feral 15y ago
The potential they have to massively disrupt the way higher education has been done for hundreds of years..? You might rightly ask for evidence to back that sentiment up; I guess its hard to validate that something has disruptive potential,
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by feral 15y ago
I apologise if I missed something here, but the GP said: "I haven't really seen/noticed women not getting promoted/paid less just because they are women" You have provided statistics that show women get paid less than men in technology. But
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by feral 15y ago
If you come home from work some day, to find Facebook employees going through your dumpster, are you going to be ok with that? Probably not, right? You know they want to gather as much data as possible, but you are angry, because you never
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by feral 15y ago
What problem would this solve? If my problem is that I don't want Facebook to have the phone numbers in my address book, then surely I don't want them to have the SHA1 of each of the numbers in my address book, either? Isn't it going to be
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by feral 15y ago
FYI, the audio of the lectures is also available, but can be difficult to find. Afair, some of its a little scrappy at the start (poor recording setup?) but his delivery is great. I wish there was video available. See also the Feynman Lect
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by feral 15y ago
Doesn't this story capture something of the essence of hacker-ness? Someone becomes curious about tech, wants to make something, does the hard work themselves, learns the hard way, gets the skills, actually makes the thing, ships it, makes
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by feral 15y ago
I worked through most of the first half of the book, over about a month, doing most of the exercises. As is stated in the arxiv review, its not meant to be a self contained intro to Haskell. I used 'learn you a haskell for great good', as
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by feral 15y ago
Interesting. Hard to think what it would be like if it got traction, though; you don't have a reliable way of telling if a single user has voted multiple times - so anyone with enough bitcoins could buy the front page, right? To keep advert
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by feral 15y ago
As others have said, a large part of the problem is that the legislative change is not made public, and debated; instead the change to the existing law can be made by ministerial order - so there's no definitive text to link to, at the mome
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by feral 15y ago
Lets not get bogged down in the tennis; I don't even play tennis, I just chose it because almost everyone recognises that investing time in fundamental skills is important in sports. I spent some time, last August, playing with Haskell. Thi
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by feral 15y ago
Lets say someone is just starting their tennis training. They like the game, but they want to learn how to play well. Would you tell them that all that matters is whether they manage to beat their next opponent, and to focus on that? Or mig

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